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WHAT HAPPENED ON 6th January 2001?
1st January 2001
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Totals of jobless people claiming benefit in Scotland has fallen by 400 to under 112 000 ` or 4.6 per cent. It is the lowest since January 1976. KIRK The Church of Scotland is starting a scheme aimed at paying more attention to the needs of children. It has designated next year The Year of the Child.
6th January 2001
POPE CLOSES CELEBRATION OF MILLENNIUM
The Pope has closed the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in Rome ending the Roman Catholic Church's celebration of the second Christian millennium. The heavy bronze door opened on the orders of the Pope a year ago will remain sealed until 2025. Thousands of pilgrims had made their way to Rome during the year to walk through the opening. The Vatican says more than 25m people visited Rome during the celebrations.
6th January 2001
SCHROEDER AND PUTIN ATTEND XMAS SERVICE
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder & Russian President Vladimir Putin have marked the Russian Orthodox Christmas. The leaders & their wives attended a service at Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral for a service led by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Earlier they took a stroll in the Kremlin & the Red Square at the start of Mr Schroeder's two-day visit. Tonight the two leaders were due to celebrate Mrs Putin's birthday.
1st January 2001
HOAX BOMB SCARE HALTS UTTOXETER RACING
Racing at Uttoxeter had to be abandoned after a hoax call sparked a security alert at the Staffordshire racecourse. About 7 000 people were evacuated from the course after four phone calls from a man claiming to be from an Irish terrorist group giving a codeword. The man claimed a bomb had been planted in the stand. Army experts police & sniffer dogs searched the site. No device was found & police said the codeword used by the caller was bogus.
6th January 2001
POPE CLOSES CELEBRATION OF MILLENNIUM
The Pope has closed the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in Rome ending the Roman Catholic Church's celebration of the second Christian millennium. The heavy bronze door opened on the orders of the Pope a year ago will remain sealed until 2025. Thousands of pilgrims had made their way to Rome during the year to walk through the opening. The Vatican says more than 25m people visited Rome during the celebrations.
6th January 2001
MISCARRIAGE VICTIM APPEALS TO WITNESSES
A pregnant woman who miscarried after being robbed in Glasgow city centre has appealed for witnesses to the attack. Lyndsay McMahon 24 was attacked in the city's Stockwell Street on Wednesday while taking a four-figure sum from her work to a post office. Mrs McMahon of Glenburn Paisley said she wanted help to catch the man who attacked her. "There were a lot of people there at the time & they must have seen something " she said.
1st January 2001
US SPY POPE RELEASED FROM RUSSIAN JAIL
Convicted US spy Edmond Pope has been freed from prison in Russia after being pardoned by President Vladimir Putin. He was convicted last week of obtaining top-secret plans for a Russian Navy torpedo & sentenced to 20 years. The Kremlin said the former US Navy intelligence officer who is suffering from cancer had been pardoned on humanitarian grounds. A lawyer for Mr Pope said he was already on a US-bound flight.
6th January 2001
POPE CLOSES CELEBRATION OF MILLENNIUM
The Pope has closed the Holy Door of St Peter's Basilica in Rome ending the Roman Catholic Church's celebration of the second Christian millennium. The heavy bronze door opened on the orders of the Pope a year ago will remain sealed until 2025. Thousands of pilgrims had made their way to Rome during the year to walk through the opening. The Vatican says more than 25m people visited Rome during the celebrations.
6th January 2001
POPE APPOINTS 37 CARDINALS TO COLLEGE
Pope John Paul II has named 37 new cardinals the largest number chosen on a single occasion in modern times. The appointments including nine members of the Roman Catholic Church's central government bring the total in the college of cardinals to 178. The new cardinals include Archbishop of Westminster Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. The present Pope has chosen all but 10 of the college whose members vote in the election of the pontiff.
